Books: What the People Said

In Milwaukee lead clouds hung over the city, blotting out the sun. A raw
wind whipped in from the south, bringing whitecaps and foam on Lake
Michigan, chilling the children who wandered with their parents down
Wisconsin Avenue to look at the Christmas toys in the windows of the
department stores. In Chicago it was cold and overcast with a threat of
snow which began as night fell.

Elsewhere the mildest season reached from coast to coast. Warm in
southern California, a perfect day for swimming in the Pacific,
unseasonably warm in Kansas City,...